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Feel like discussing women who rattled societal cages in the Middle Ages? How about taking an overnight backpacking trip? Or maybe you\u2019re interested in the connection between women and ecology?<\/p>\n

All those subjects and more are offered in the upcoming Spring Semester. If you haven\u2019t decided on all your classes, here are descriptions of some that may be of interest. Registration is now open for all spring classes.<\/p>\n

Making waves<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Ask most folks to name rabble-rousing women of the Middle Ages and Joan of Arc tends to be No. 1 on the list.<\/p>\n

Yes, she was a major figure\u2014successful soldier, military advisor, political negotiator, religious figure. And she was burned at the stake when she was 19 years old on a trumped-up charge of heresy.<\/p>\n

Tough to be a strong woman in the Middle Ages.<\/p>\n

But Joan of Arc is only the best-known of women who made waves in the Middle Ages; there are many others who, through their religious practices and political savvy, reached levels of authority not usually attained by women during that era.<\/p>\n

Amy Huesman,<\/a> an adjunct professor in the Department of History, will highlight some of those women in \u201cHoly Women and Heretics in the Late Middle Ages.”<\/a> And some of them were a bit on the wild side.<\/p>\n

\u201cWomen got away with some behaviors that seemed almost bizarre because people in their communities believed they had a special connection to the divine,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

Those connections ran through such practices as mysticism, devotional writings, heretical sects, accusations of witchcraft, even sacrificing their lives as a form of piety.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want the students to see the various ways in which religious practice served as a source of power for late medieval women in their respective\u00a0communities,\u201d Huesman says. \u201cWe will look at\u00a0the lives of women who gained positions of\u00a0authority\u2014both spiritual and political\u2014because of their deep, sometimes\u00a0extreme, devotion.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd they were often able to dance on the fine line between orthodoxy and heresy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Writing and the Watershed<\/strong><\/h3>\n

What exactly does an English class have to do with keeping an eye on garbage in our local streams?<\/p>\n

\u201cI am a believer in stewardship\u2014both of our places and of ourselves,\u201d says Clayton Jones, the adjunct professor of English leading \u201cEnvironmental Rhetoric and Composition II.\u201d<\/a> \u201cI want students to leave my class with a profound sense of responsibility to their writing and to their environment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Much of the course\u2019s writing is based on the fieldwork, including a research paper on endangered and invasive species in the Tennessee River Watershed, he says. Students also will publish an e-portfolio account of their findings,\u00a0critical reflections,\u00a0journals, data and photographs on Weebly.com.<\/p>\n

The class is full at this point, but interested students\u00a0 can put their names on a waiting list in case another one opens up. For questions on how to put their name on the list, students can email Jones at\u00a0at clayton-jones@utc.edu.<\/a><\/p>\n

Students in the course are also awarded Beyond the Classroom points, which can lead to priority registration the following semester, an invitation to a special dinner and an award signed by Chancellor Steve Angle.<\/p>\n

Jones admits that doing \u201ccitizen science\u201d through an English class is kind of odd, but he calls it \u201crefreshing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cStudents will be surprised to discover how interconnected humans\u00a0are\u2014not just locally, but globally.\u201d<\/p>\n

The city has created an app to track data while the Scenic City Beautiful Commission will help students with a plan for the findings. Conservationists from the Tennessee Aquarium also have signed on.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt seems to me that Chattanooga is\u00a0microcosm\u00a0for the study environmental issues since so much has happened here,\u201d Jones says. \u201cSo, I hope that we will learn to make arguments about the local issues that can transcend\u00a0into global solutions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Out and about<\/strong><\/h3>\n

To heck with the classroom, Alana Retseck-Coulter wants to take students out into the fresh air and wilderness.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the plan for her \u201cBackpacking and Hiking\u201d<\/a> class. Books and research papers aren\u2019t on the syllabus.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis class isn’t your typical class, so it’s not really about themes and topics, it’s about experiences,\u201d says Retseck-Coulter, an adjunct professor in the Department of Health and Human Performance.<\/p>\n

Students will meet in late February and will have one\u2014\u201cmaybe two\u201d\u2014day hikes in March and an overnight hike in early April, she says. At the end of the semester, students hopefully will know how to \u201cappropriately plan and pack for a basic, two- to three-night\u00a0backpacking trip,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

She expects some students in the class, especially if they\u2019re beginners at backpacking, don\u2019t know \u201chow minimally you can pack and still make it in the woods for a week.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before her daughter was born, she was an avid backpacker, Retseck-Coulter says, with trips along the Appalachian Trial, Abram Falls in the Smokies and Joyce Kilmer State Park in North Carolina. She says about 98 percent of UTC students haven\u2019t sought hiking opportunities around Chattanooga, \u201cand that\u2019s OK.\u201d But she believes students who take advantage of the hiking and backpacking opportunities in the area will find benefits they didn’t expect.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel that everyone needs to find a healthy outdoor escape, and I’m not talking outdoor sports. I’m talking a natural place where the distractions are minimized and the noises are soothing. College students need to get away and calm their minds; they will come back feeling better and ready to refocus.\u201d<\/p>\n

A quote by American physician and cardiologist\u00a0Paul Dudley White sums up her philosophy: “A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.”<\/p>\n

For more information about this class, contact Alana Retseck-Coulter at\u00a0alana-retseck@utc.edu.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Environmentally weaving<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The environment. Society. Politics. Sustainability. Consumption. Materialism. Justice.<\/p>\n

Wide-ranging topics but all interwoven, all critical when it comes to the forces that affect the environment and even the steps we take to protect it, says Shawn Trivette,<\/a> assistant professor of sociology who\u2019s teaching \u201cEnvironmental Sociology.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Students know about electric cars, solar energy, clean water efforts and other high-profile environmental efforts, he says, but they generally aren\u2019t aware of the social pressures also are in play.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think what often surprises students the most are the ways in which our environmental choices are so profoundly shaped by other forces in the world around us,\u201d Trivette says.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor example, we may want to source our energy from renewable sources, but that depends upon such an option being available where we live and, if it is, being able to indicate that preference to whatever entity provides our power. Or we may want to drive less, but that requires transportation alternatives to exist such as reasonable bike routes or reliable public transportation infrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n

The course will examine how capitalism, overconsumption and materialism enter the equation. Discussions also will focus on fracking, climate change and environmental disasters\u2014the huge coal ash spill in 2008 at TVA\u2019s Kingston Fossil Plant, for example.<\/p>\n

Questions about environmental justice will be raised, including how socioeconomic factors often mean environmental problems hurt the poor more than the wealthy.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s not all gloom. On an optimistic note, the class will try to come up with ways to build a more-sustainable world also are part of discussion.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it’s super important to seek solutions, not just document problems,\u201d Trivette says.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope students will become more engaged and aware environmental citizens through taking this course,\u201d he says. \u201cThat means not just living their lives in a more ecologically-oriented mindset, but also interfacing more intentionally and directly with the many social systems that have a significant impact on our environment.<\/p>\n

Liberation: Women & Earth<\/strong><\/h3>\n

What do you do with a \u201cproblem child\u201d?<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re Dr. Michael Jaynes,<\/a> you bring the child out in the open.<\/p>\n

Senior lecturer in English and Women\u2019s Studies, Jaynes is leading a class in \u201cEcofeminism,\u201d<\/a> a term that was in vogue back in the 1980s and early \u201990s, went out of fashion.<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, it has re-emerged with different names\u2014ecological feminism, feminist ecology, etc.\u2014in the 2010s with the emergence of a popular focus on ecological, environmental, and ecological concerns,\u201d Jaynes says.<\/p>\n

At its core, \u201cecofeminism is a much-maligned subset of feminism that looks at the intersection of environmentalism and feminism,\u201d he explains. \u201cThese two spheres share many commonalities, and it\u2019s cool to see how they relate and influence each other.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the term still has a certain amount of controversy about it because it\u2019s considered by some to be a liberal mindset, Jaynes says that\u2019s short-sighted.<\/p>\n

\u201cEnvironmentalism, concern for animal ethics and feminism need not be considered \u2018liberal\u2019 issues,\u201d he says. \u201cThough they often are, these areas don\u2019t need to be politicized. They retain near-universal power and importance independent of politicization.<\/p>\n

Discussions in the course range from American, European, and Indian environmental movements, animal rights in Europe and the U.S., how \u201cwomen\u2019s lib\u201d morphed into women\u2019s studies and the \u201cgreening\u201d of capitalism.<\/p>\n

Students also will study the differences between Materialist, Spiritual and Deep Ecology camps of ecofeminism.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt posits valuing the Earth and women inherently, independent of social value placed upon them by the patriarchy.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany students are surprised at how intersectional women\u2019s liberation and Earth liberation is.\u201d<\/p>\n

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